Greeting Card Campaign: 7-17 Get out of the Doghouse Day

If you seem to stay in trouble more than you stay out of trouble (and frankly, you probably wouldn't have been reduced to the extreme of sending a card per day if you weren't that sort of doofus), then today is your day.

It's "Get Out of the Doghouse Day"!  Yeah!

Today is the day when, according to ancient tradition, your wife has to forgive you if you get on your knees and confess your failures and shortcomings (and bring her an unburnt breakfast in bed or better yet, a brunch at her favorite bistro.

Inside of card

Outside of card

This is a top fold card, so print the second page upside down on the back of the first page.  As with all of these, insert the pictures into your Word or publishing software document so they cover the full front and back of a single sheet of card stock.  Download the images by right clicking and choosing "Save image as".

Be careful, though.  This is a day to beg for giveness, not demand it. Start demanding your right to forgiveness and it could easily turn into "Bury Your Husband Under the Back Porch Day."

I'm just sayin'

© 2013 by Tom King

Greeting Card Campaign: 7-23 - National Hot Dog Day

July 23 is National Hot Dog Day.  We continue our year long campaign of greeting cards with a tender and romantic message for National Hot Dog Day.  What says "romance" better than a nice, well-roasted frankfurter.

This is a vertical card. Place the jpeg files in landscape mode on landscape oriented pages on back to back pages in your document.  Print them so that both pages print so that the tops of the pictures face the same direction.  Print them on a nice cardstock.

Have fun and enjoy the dogs...

© 2013 by Tom King

Greeting Card Campaign: 7-15 National Tapioca Day

July 15th is National Tapioca Day - a celebration of all things tapioca. If your beloved doesn't like tapioca, you can always celebrate National Nude Day today, but I ain't makin' no card for that one. You're on your own there. This is a family site. 
 

 

I've chosen a kind of sappy romantic theme featuring pudding AND peaches.  These are the graphics (above) for the outside and inside of the card.  Just paste them as full page graphics on the front and back of the page in your document file.  You can use Word or Publisher, PageMaker (like I did) or any other publishing software.  The second page should be printed upside down compared to the first which is why the photo scan is upside down  That way the greeting will be at the bottom of the inside page.  This is a top fold card.  You can buy blank greeting card stock with a nice prefold in it or go cheap like me and buy straight cardstock and fold it yourself. 

I've also included a nice recipe for Tapioca Pudding & Peaches below if you want to get jiggy with the special effects. Nothing says I love you like a sweet treat.  For those of you guys doing something with whipped cream and a big red bow, just don't tell us about it, okay. I don't even want to imagine that.

 

Tapioca Pudding

With Peaches

Ingredients

·       2 cups (2%) milk

·       1 egg

·       tbsp tapioca

·       1½ cups coarsely diced fresh peaches

·       3 tbsp no-sugar apricot spread

·       1 tsp vanilla

Preparation:

1.     Beat egg lightly. Add milk, egg and tapioca to saucepan and allow it to sit for 5 minutes. 

2.     Stir peaches and apricot spread into mixture.

3.     Heat and stir over medium heat until the pudding comes to a boil.

4.     Cook for 1 minute after the pudding starts to boil. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.

5.     Cool slightly; stir. Place plastic wrap directly on surface of pudding; chill.

Makes 4 servings.  If you can't get fresh peaches, you can use frozen peaches if you add 1 or 2 packages of artificial sweetener or 4 teaspoons of sugar to the milk mixture.

Tom King - © 2013